Description: This article describes the development of the uninsured pensioner, UP-94 Mortality Table, including a comparison with other tables and description of projection methodologies using Projection Scale AA.

Description: Table 2 for 2009 Pension Section Survey: Update and Action Plan showing the Pension Section's plans for continuing education and the expected timeframe

Description: Table 3 for 2009 Pension Section Survey: Update and Action Plan showing Pension Section's plans for Communications and their timeframe

Description: Panelists provide: [1] a summary of legal issues and recent federal court cases regarding employee and retiree benefit plans, and [2] discussion of three research papers providing new thought and insight involving the perspective of many disciplines about the aging population and changing family structures in the U.S. and around the world. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2. Session 143TS of the San Francisco Spring Meeting.

Description: Table accompanying the article A Guide to Surfing the New Pension Section Web Pages which provides links to various research papers and other resources offered on the Pension Section web pages

Description: Table 1 for 2009 Pension Section Survey: Update and Action Plan showing types of research being done by the Pension Section Council and their time frame

Description: This session presented creative approaches to plan design.

Description: Replacement rates have historically been a tool to determine the adequacy of retirement income to maintain an individual’s standard of living. Numerous conceptual and methodological issues lie, however, beneath its simple exterior. The purpose of this paper is to examine these underlying issues for the benefit of retirement security stakeholders, pension plan sponsors, advisors, financial product providers, and individuals planning for retirement.

Description: In this session 153 PD of the New York Annual Meeting panelists look at the actuarial background, financial implications, underwriting, and solvency issues posed by various newsworthy items. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3.

Description: This section provides multiple book reviews and summaries of recent publications. Topics include aging, retirement and pension plans, investing, demography, mergers and acquisitions, variable annuities and other insurance and mathmatical subjects. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1972, Vol. 24, Pt. 1, No. 70.